unpack_table(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

Okay bestie, welcome to unpack_table(9) from the Kernel API Manual 💅. This function unpacks a dfa table (one of accept, default, base, next check). It's giving low-level table-unpacking main character energy, and yes, the details matter. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here's the exact signature, no edits, no cap:

struct table_header * unpack_table (const char *blob , size_t bsize );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• blob — the data to unpack. It's literally NOT NULL, bestie — do not come in here with a null pointer 😭.
• bsize — size of blob. Simple as that. 🌸

🔥 RETURN 🔥

You get a pointer to table, else ERR_PTR on failure. Periodt. 💅

💀 NOTE 💀

Must be freed by kvfree (not kfree) — literally not kfree, okay? This is the memory-management vibe check you do not want to fail. 😭🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./security/apparmor/match.c is where the friend group lives: verify_table_headers(9), verify_dfa(9), dfa_free(9), aa_dfa_free_kref(9), remap_data16_to_data32(9), aa_dfa_unpack(9), aa_dfa_match_len(9), aa_dfa_match(9), aa_dfa_next(9), aa_dfa_match_until(9), aa_dfa_matchn_until(9), and aa_dfa_leftmatch(9). Go read them, iykyk 🦋✨

Sign-off cuteness: this page comes from ./security/apparmor, dated October 2026, and it's the unpack_table(9) manual page. Stay iconic and slay, bestie 🫶💖🎀